APPENDIX X Index of provenances and former owners The index of provenances that follows is no more than provisional. The transcription of the ownership inscriptions in many instances is uncertain (some are crossed through, erased or sheared), and the identi‰cation of former owners in Venn and other biographical resources has often proved equally problematic. I am very grateful to Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Pamela Selwyn, who have examined images of many of these diŸcult cases and suggested transcriptions and identi‰cations which had eluded me. In the Index entries, the name of the former owner is given as the heading (where this has been identi‰ed), followed on the next line by brief details of the book in which the provenance inscription occurs, with the catalogue number, shelf-mark and present binding. The inscription itself and other relevant information (such as initials stamped on the covers) follows, with biographical details of the former owner and any references to complete the entry. Abbreviations: CT Centre-tool binding, or binding with a centre-tool. MS Manuscript leaves. MS+ Strip from a MS used as a binding strengthener. PT Parchment covers. PNL Panel-binding. R Rebound volume. RL Roll-binding. † Pre-Geste ownership inscription ‡ Pre-Geste MS annotations, book-price or book-title(s) on fore-edge or spine. * Sheared or trace only. 431 appendix x: index of provenances The tabular information, printed in grey type below, is laid out in the following columns Imprint Author Cat. no. Shelf-mark Binding date ( ‰rst item) annotation Appleby, John 1566 Nowell, A. N14 O.1.16 PT ‘Joh[ann]es Applebe huius libri possessor’; ‘H K’ stamped in gold on front and back covers (see under K., H. below). Venn records a pensioner of this name who matriculated at St John’s Cambridge, Easter 1568. Arundel, Henry Fitzalan, Earl of [1550] Amsdorƒ, N. A28 L.5.22 R ‘Arundel’ on titlepage. 12th Earl of Arundel (1512–1579), Henry Fitzalan, who obtained much of Thomas Cranmer’s library after its con‰scation by the Crown in 1553. Presumably, this was an item not passed on to his son-in-law John, Lord Lumley, when his library was amalgamated with Lumley’s sometime after 1557. Atkinson, R[ichard]. See also Skypton, G. [c. 1508] Eusebius E56 A.6.32(e) R ‘teste R. Atkynson’ 1529 Augustine A62 A.6.32(a) R ‘teste R. Atkynson’ Older contemporary of Geste’s at King’s College, Cambridge, and his predecessor as vice-Provost, and Provost after Sir John Cheke (1553– 1556). Born at Ripley, Yorks., and admitted to King’s in 1527 as a scholar from Eton (like Geste). Fellow 1530–1548; BA 1531–1532; MA 1535; BD 1542; DD 1545. Vice-provost of King’s 1542–1548 immediately before Geste. Lady Margaret Preacher, 1545. Rector of Stower, Dorset, 1547–1556. Provost of King’s 1553–1556 at the time Geste was expelled from the college (1554). Rector of Woodchurch, Kent. Incorporated his Cambridge degrees at Oxford in 1554 on his visit there to dispute with the Protestants on trial. Died of the plague in 1556. Will proved (King’s Coll. Sept. 15 [1556]). Venn. 432 appendix x: index of provenances Bagley, William. See also Skypton, G. [c. 1508] Augustine A62 A.6.32(a) R ‘teste G. Baggleo’. Possibly the William Bagley from Warwickshire who was admitted to King’s College as a scholar from Eton on 12 Sept. 1530. BA 1531/32. Fellow (1530). Venn. Bambrogh [Bamburgh], Ioannes, Vicar of Mallynge [Kent]. See Rochester, St Andrew, Benedictine Cathedral Priory Blanckard, Eurard[?] 1567 Petit, G. *P2 B.5.39 R ‘Ornatissimo viro, Eurardo Bla[?]nckardo, amico optatissimo, in Germaniam discedens d.d. Joannes Boulenius’ on tp. Unidenti‰ed. Geste’s ownership of this book is far from certain. Blithman[?], William 1527 Thucydides *T3 Y.3.19(c) RL ‘Williu[m] Blithman[?]’ on p. 234 in a sixteenth-century hand. This Blythman or Blithman not identi‰ed. Not in Venn. See also under D., J. Blomefyld, Wyllm. 1519 Gratian G30 H.2.54 R ‘Wyllm Blomefyld’ in red ink in a page covered with annotations in Geste’s hand on Šyleaf at end. Apparently the William Blom‰ld [Blome‰eld] ( Š. 1529–1574) who had been a Benedictine monk at Bury St Edmunds, became a pro- testant, brieŠy held a living in Norwich (1569), but who is best known as an alchymist and author of Bloom‰eld’s Blossoms, (1557) and Blomefyld’s Quintaessens ([c. 1574]). ODNB. Boulenius, Joannes. See under Blanckard, Eurard Brandisby [Brandesby, Bransbie], John, DD 1495 Ficino, M. F5 Z.2.56 R ‘J. Bransbei Gest’ 1506 Reuchlin, J. R17 E.4.13 R ‘Sir Joannes Brandesbie’ 1520 Basil B6 A.4.7 R ‘Sum J. Brandisbei angli’ 433 appendix x: index of provenances Brandisby, John, continued 1527 Erasmus, D. E48 H.1.2 PNL ‘Sum liber Edmundi Gest teste Brau[?]ndesbeio e’ scriptore biro scilicet bono’. ‘Joa[n]nis Brandesbie sum liber Gest ex dono doctoris Brandesbie caput’. 1538 Luther, M. L72 ZC2.6.14 PC ‘good maister Brandes[by] accept my wytt’ Geste’s uncle and elder brother of Richard Brandisby, the classical scholar, Linacre Professor of Medicine and fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. Christopher Leedes (see below) was also a nephew. Presumably born in Yorkshire. Graduated from Michael- house, Cambridge, BA 1513/14 and MA 1517, becoming rector of Wittering, Northants in the same year. Apparently in Paris (c. 1518), though whether he studied there, and for how long, is not certain (see Introduction). BD and University Preacher 1523. Held livings in the York diocese: Sproatley (1528–1534), Master of Sutton College, Sutton-in Holderness (1528–1540), Settrington (1528–1549), Kirkby Wiske (1535) and Beeford (1539–1549); held prebendal stalls at Lincoln (Centum Solidorum, 1529–1546), Southwell (Dunham, 1534) and York (Osbaldwick, 1539, exchanged for that of Knaresborough in 1541). DD (1532). Took part, with Dr Richard Langrige (see below) in 1535, as chaplain to Edward Lee, Archbishop of York, in attempting to secure the signatures of the Religious in the Houses of the York diocese in support of the Royal Supremacy. Died in York, 7 Dec. 1549. Will, making bequests to his relatives, including Richard Brandisby, Edmund Geste and Christopher Leedes, proved, 14 February, 1550 (York, Borthwick Insitute, Abp. Reg. 29 f. 154). Venn and Cooper. Only items E48 and L72 are in their original bindings (a Marian triple panel (Oldham, BPEB, TRIP 9) and parchment wrappers respectively), but Brandisby was apparently a customer of Garrett Godfrey in 1527, though none of the above are listed, as were his two brothers, Richard and James. I owe this information to Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green. Bridges, John, Dr 1574 Whitgift, J. W16 T.3.8 RL ‘Ex dono Jo. Bridges.’ Matriculated as a pensioner at Peterhouse, Cambridge (1554) but migrated to Pembroke as fellow in 1556. BA (1557), MA and made 434 appendix x: index of provenances deacon (1560) after three years in Italy, supported by Francis Russell, second earl of Bedford. Vicar of Herne, Kent (1562–1590). BD 1564 and canon of Winchester (1565–1578). Followed John Piers as Dean of Salisbury (1578) when the former became Bishop of Salisbury after Geste’s death in 1577. Bishop of Oxford (1604–1618). ODNB and Venn. Bruarne, Richard 1559 Wittenberg Academia W45 B.5.8 R ‘Ri. Bruarne’ Presumably the Richard Bruarne, who achieved a reputation as a Hebrew scholar, having been admitted to Lincoln College, Oxford, (c. 1535), graduating BA (1537), elected a Fellow (1538), and pro- ceeding to MA (1539) and BD (1548). The same year he was elected a Fellow of Eton College, and appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford until he was forced to resign his chair in 1559. A Catholic in outlook, Bruarne gave evidence in support of Stephen Gardiner at his trial in 1551, replaced Peter Martyr Vermigli as a canon of Christ Church, following the removal of the former in 1553, and was one of twelve Oxford and Cambridge theologians present at the Oxford disputations in 1554 when Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley were judged guilty of heresy, being rewarded soon after with a canonry at Windsor. In 1561, the fellows of Eton elected him Provost (without seeking the Queen’s permission) and after an investigation by Parker, Robert Horne and Sir Anthony Cook as visitors, he was forced to resign. He died in 1565 and was buried at Windsor. ODNB. Brynckley [Brinkley], Richard. See also Cambridge, Franciscan Convent 1521 Pelbárt, O. P15 M.1.27 RL ‘Fratris Richardi Brynickilij [sic] ministri [erased]’ Evidently the Cambridge Franciscan Richard Brynckley [Brinkley] who commenced BD 1489 and DD 1492, incorporated at Oxford in 1524, as Provincial Minister of the Order (1518–1526), dying c. 1525– 1527. A student of Greek and Hebrew, he owned or borrowed a number of books of which some, like this, remain ( J.R.H. Moorman, The Grey Friars in Cambridge 1225–1538, Cambridge: University Press, 1952, pp. 155f.; Ker, MLGB, 24, 401); Cooper I, 34. 435 appendix x: index of provenances Bullore or Bulloke, [?R. R.] 1507 Castellensis, H. C49 H.1.21 RL ‘[?R.R.] Bullore’ or ‘Bulloke’ inscribed at top of front calf cover; ‘R.R’ very faded and uncertain. Identi‰cation uncertain. A Richard Bullar, BA 1536/37, MA 1540, Fellow of Christ’s College 1539–1540, left (in 1540) a collection of 73 items comprising classical, grammatical and theological works including some of Erasmus, Melanchthon and Bullinger (BiCI, I, no.6), but not this one. If ‘Bulloke’, Venn records a Richard Bullock, BCanL 1476/77 but no other details; a Henry Bullock, Fellow of Queens 1506, DD 1520, author of Oratio habita Cantabrigiae (1520), Vice-Chancellor 1524–1525, friend and correspondent of Erasmus and chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey, who died in 1526; and a George Bullock, Fellow of St John’s College 1537/38, Master 1554–59, Lady Margaret Professor 1556–1559, DD 1557, who retired to Nevers Abbey, France, during the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I, and later to Paris and Antwerp (died 1580).